You might watch the video below and beg to differ, but over the past fortnight I feel I’m slowly getting to grips with Spanish grammar. In class we occasionally play Scrabble and my brain sometimes feels like the bag holding all the extra letters. During conversations I’ll try to extract the words I need, but […]
Learning Spanish
A close shave near Starfish Beach
I wrote in a previous post that the lack of brakes on the bicycles in Bocas del Toro wasn’t a problem as the islands’ relaxed atmosphere meant there wasn’t a need for them. How wrong I was. I was cycling down one of the larger hills on my way back from two beaches on the […]
Progress Report: Two weeks in Panama
As I’ve written in my most recent blog post, I’ve learned a lot of vocabulary and grammar during my first two weeks studying Spanish at Habla Ya in Bocas del Toro. This will undoubtedly benefit me greatly in the weeks and months ahead. At the moment I’m struggling to formulate all this new information into […]
Exploring Bocas del Toro
After spending two weeks in Bocas del Toro, I’m slowly beginning to establish a routine. I have four hours of Spanish classes every weekday. These are tough at times, but I’m slowly making progress. As classes are taught solely in Spanish, it forces my brain to constantly engage or risk losing track of the conversation […]
Setting off to Panama
As I walked around Heathrow Terminal 5 before dawn, I recalled my departure to Central America on my gap year nine years and 11 months before. I was aware that although this was a day I had been looking forward to for months, I was noticeably less giddy this time around. Had I remembered my […]
Progress Report: The starting line
Hola! I intend to produce fortnightly videos over the coming months, which will hopefully track the improvement in my Spanish language skills. On the basis that progress must be measured for goals to be attained, the video below represents the start line. After studying Spanish at GCSE level 12 years ago, I have tried to pick […]